Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables

Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables by Fred Hagy offers a new approach-providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden. Beginning with the premise of "maximum beauty with maximum utility," Hagy discusses the principles of garden design and shows how one can easily visualize what the land-from lawn garden to backyard to field-can provide. He outlines a step-by-step procedure for combining all one's ideas, dreams, and tastes to create a setting that is both eye-pleasing and food-producing.
In addition, Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables includes an authoritative series of "Plant Information Sheets" featuring the most up-to-date, genetically advanced tree, bush and plant varieties available. They not only specify the characteristics and varieties of each plant and where you can get them, but describe how to maintain them for maximum productivity and longevity. Information on drainage and irrigation, pest control, espaliering, container gardening and pollination requirements as well as an extensive bibliography make this an informative and indispensable reference for any home gardener.

About the Author
Fred Hagy is a registered landscape architect and Associate of Kennedy & Associates Site Planners/ Landscape Architects, Lambertville, New Jersey. He has served as Chief Landscape Architect for Broward County Parks Department, one of the largest urban parks systems in the country, and has operated a design firm specializing in edible landscaping.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
  
• Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (February 15, 2001)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1585671207
  
• ISBN-13: 9781585671205
  
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
  
• List Price: $40.00
  
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Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden 2nd Edition by Lee Reich provides a valuable guide to uncommon fruits and berries, which add an adventurous flavor to any garden. Though names like jujube, juneberry, maypop, and shipova may seem exotic at first glance, these fruits offer ample rewards to the gardener willing to go only slightly off the beaten path at local nurseries. Reliable even in the toughest garden situations, cold-hardy, and pest- and disease-resistant, they are as enticing to the beginner as to the advanced gardener. This expanded sequel to the author's celebrated Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention offers new fruits, new varieties, and new photos and illustrations to entice the reader into an exciting world of garden pleasure.

About the Author
Lee Reich is an avid gardener who, after more than a decade in research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Cornell University, has turned to writing, lecturing, and consulting. He is a frequent speaker at many events, including garden symposia and clubs, grower conferences, and Master Gardener workshops. He is the author of several books and writes regularly for such publications as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and The New York Times. His gardening column for Associated Press appears weekly in newspapers across the country. While he was with the USDA and Cornell University in fruit research, Lee began to realize just how few fruits dominate our markets and how difficult they are to grow, mostly in terms of pest control.
He started researching some uncommon fruits, fruits that have been grown in various parts of the world at various times but that are now not generally known or grown. Most important was to find plants that were cold hardy with fruits that were truly tasty without being "'doctored up"' in the kitchen. It turns out that the plants he came up with are also relatively pest resistant, and many of them are quite ornamental. In Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, the criteria for inclusion in the roster are absolute: the plants must be able to tolerate winter cold and be uncommon, and  most important  the fruit must be good for eating fresh. Lee invites us to join him in the garden in the months and years ahead, savoring the medley of flavors that these uncommon fruits offer. When not in the garden, Lee Reich can be found actively involved in one of his other passions, which include cross-country skiing, woodworking, and music. He resides in New Paltz, NY.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
  
• Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated; 2 edition (May 1, 2004)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 088192623X
  
• ISBN-13: 9780881926231
  
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
  
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How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

How to Grow Your Own Food: A Week-by-week Guide to Wild Life Friendly Fruit and Vegetable Gardening by Dirty Nails is a compilation of weekly columns written for "Blackmore Vale Magazine", which takes you outdoors and on the vegetable plot where seeds are sown, plants nurtured, fruits tended and crops harvested. It includes guidance by which your kitchen garden, vegetable patch or allotment provides you with the good fruit and vegetables. It is his passion for what he does and where he is that inspired 'Dirty Nails' to put pen to paper and record day-to-day life in the vegetable garden. In a compilation of his weekly columns written for the "Blackmore Vale Magazine", Dirty Nails takes you outdoors and 'in amongst it' on the vegetable plot where seeds are sown, plants nurtured, fruits tended and crops harvested. Flora and fauna are noted, too, and delicious and often unusual recipes lovingly supplied. With his guidance - and your gardening - your kitchen garden, vegetable patch or allotment will provide you with the good, fresh, honest and seasonal fruit and vegetables that Dirty Nails has a passion for. And he will also help you sustain the ecological balance of your garden.

Book Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
  
• Publisher: How to Books Ltd (September 15, 2007)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1905862113
  
• ISBN-13: 9781905862115
  
• Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
  
• List Price: $22.00
  

Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Matthew Biggs, Jekka McVicar and Bob Flowerdew is a definitive reference and a remarkable value.
Three expert authors combine superb illustrations with reliable information on choosing vegetables, herbs and fruit that can be cultivated to bountiful success. The information is organized for easy access, with an A-Z directory featuring full color photographs along with thorough information. Cooks will appreciate the nutritional material and the featured recipes.
Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit is useful year-round -- from planning next year's garden to enjoying the harvest. Readers will frequently refer to its wealth of tips and advice, which cover:

• Edibility and nutritional value.
  
• The most useful and most recommended varieties.
  
• Plant hardiness, propagation and growing guidelines.
  
• Cropping, harvesting and storing.
  
• Weed, pest and disease control.
  
• Ornamental and wildlife value.
  
• A maintenance calendar.
  
• Pruning and training.
  
• Companion planting.
  
• Container growing.
  

Practical aspects of gardening are explained in detail, with in-depth sections on creating a garden, pollination, soil fertility and greenhouse growing. A glossary, further reading, seed sources, hardiness zones and detailed index round out this outstanding book.

About the Author
Matthew Biggs lectures at the Royal Horticultural Society. His other books include Matthew Biggs' Complete Book of Vegetables.
Jekka McVicar has won several top awards from the Royal Horticultural Society. Her other books include Jekka 's Culinary Herbs.
Bob Flowerdew is an author and a lecturer for the Royal Horticultural Society.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 640 pages
  
• Publisher: Firefly Books; Reprint edition edition (March 16, 2007)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 1554071267
  
• ISBN-13: 9781554071265
  
• Dimensions: 10.4 x 8 x 1.6 inches
  
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McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey is an extraordinarily complete, plant-by-plant guide. Complete with all the basics of choosing the right containers, determining soil types, applying fertilizers, and knowing when to start from seed and when to start from seedling.
Clear and easy directions: Vegetables for every season: 21 varieties of beans, including favas and haricots verts; peppers from sweet orange Valencias to fiery Thai Dragons (a scorcher at 60,000 Scoville units); dwarf eggplants; fingerling potatoes; 17 terrific tomatoes; lettuces; and Asian greens like bok choy, mizuna, and Chinese kale. Herbs, including basils green and purple, exotic lemongrass, soothing chamomile, saffron crocus, and the essential culinary herbs such as parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, and the many thymes. Fruits: Meyer lemons, strawberries, gooseberries, figs, and even apples, peaches, and grapes. And edible flowers, like tart begonias, pepper nasturtiums, clove-spicy dianthus, and sweet daylilies, to add enchantment to meals.

About the Author
Besides Storey's Country Tea Party, Maggie Stuckey has written a number of gardening books, such as Aromatherapy for Everyone, The Complete Herb Book, and Green Plants for Gray Days. She likes to grow tea herbs, and tea parties are one of the most pleasurable ways for her to spend time with her friends and her young niece. Maggie lives in Portland, Oregon.

Book Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
  
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (February 1, 2002)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 0761116230
  
• ISBN-13: 9780761116233
  
• Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
  
• List Price: $17.95
  
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